[by analogy with techspeak context-free] Used of a message that adds
nothing to the recipient's knowledge. Though this adjective is sometimes
applied to flamage, it more usually connotes
derision for communication styles that exalt form over substance or are
centered on concerns irrelevant to the subject ostensibly at hand. Perhaps
most used with reference to speeches by company presidents and other
professional manipulators. “Content-free? Uh... that's
anything printed on glossy paper.” (See also
four-color glossies.) “He gave a talk on the implications of
electronic networks for postmodernism and the fin-de-siecle aesthetic. It
was content-free.”